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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

As members of Catholic Health Sponsors of Ontario, Providence Healthcare, St. Joseph’s Health Centre
and St. Michael’s Hospital were founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph and continue to deliver on their
long-standing mission of caring for the most marginalized or disadvantaged in our community – Our
Shared Purpose. All three organizations provide health care that begins with a deep respect for the
intrinsic value and dignity of every human being. These are deeply rooted priorities founded in the
mission of Catholic health care.

The populations each organization serves are growing, more patients are presenting with complex
medical and social needs, health human resources are aging, and health-care funding reform requires
organizations to be innovative. St. Joseph’s, St. Michael’s and Providence recognize that to continue
responding to the needs of their communities, standing still and standing alone is no longer a viable
option. It is for this reason the three organizations are proposing the creation of a health network with a
single governance and management model that will benefit the people they care for, the organizations’
respective communities and our broader health system.

United, the three organizations will be better positioned to improve quality of care for all our patients,
residents and clients (‘patients’) by creating a new health network that offers the full spectrum of care.
This integration will serve as a model of system integration between an academic health science centre,
large community teaching centre and a post-acute organization providing rehabilitation, palliative care,
long-term care and community care.

High Quality, Safe Patient Care
Providence, St. Joseph’s and St. Michael’s are confident this new health network will create positive
gains for our patients and our organizations by:
 Helping patients and their families obtain better access to a more local and integrated health
care network, by enabling consultative approaches to focus bi-directionally through primary
care, acute, post-acute, residential care and community, putting our patients at the centre of
their care – improving their experience and delivering higher quality care.
 Making decisions based on value and quality, to sustain our network for our communities for
generations to come by reinvesting in frontline care, making the best use of the skills and
capacities of our clinical service providers, and by continuing the promise in all of our strategic
plans to collaborate and engage patients, clients and residents in the care and services we
provide.
 Expanding our research focus on urban health through increased activity in a larger community-
based network to study and better understand the determinants of health and their impact on
the health of our communities.
 Recruiting and retaining outstanding physicians, health professionals, leaders, staff and
volunteers by offering expanded clinical, education, research and management experiences
across multiple sites.

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